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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPD-329-89 R EP ORTJ4-- TOWN OF NEWCASTLE REPORT File # Res. # By-Law # MEETING: Council DATE: December 11, 1989 REPORT #: PD-329-89 FILE #: affl,ECT: AMENDMENT TO TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PARKING BY-LAW #79-1 RECOMMENDATIONS: It is respectfully recommended to Council the following: 1. THAT Report PD-329-89 be received; 2 . THAT Council approve the By-law attached to Report PD-329- 89 ; 3 . THAT Council designates the area as shown on Schedule A of this Report as Free Parking Area for the week prior to Christmas Day for 1989 and all subsequent years. HISTORY: 1. For several years it has been the custom of the Town of Newcastle to cover the parking meters in the downtown of Bowmanville to allow free parking and encourage shopping at certain times of the year. 2 . In 1978 Council enacted an amendment to Parking By-law 76-30 to allow Council to designate areas to be exempt from the payment of parking. This exemption would be in the form of a resolution and would specify the location and duration of the exemption. (Attachment 1) 2 REPORT NO. PD-329-89 PAGE . .2 3 . On January 15, 1979, a new Comprehensive Parking By-law was enacted (By-law 79-1) . The by-law repealed By-law 76-30 and hence there is no authority for Staff to cover the parking meters . (Attachment 2) 4 . In late November of this year the Bowmanville Business Improvement Area again requested that the downtown corridor of Bowmanville be exempted during the week before Christmas. (Attachment 3) 5. While researching the background information in preparation for this, the above noted problem was discovered. In order to rectify this situation, an amendment to the Parking By-law 79- 1 is necessary. 6 . The proposed by-law attached hereto will allow Council, by resolution, to designate any municipal parking area for a certain time period from payment of parking fees . Respectfully submitted, Recommended for presentation to the Committee �i Franklin Wu, M.C. I .P. Lawrenc E. Kotseff, M.C. I .P. Director of Planning Chief d 'nistrative Officer and Development Ll LC*FW*df 5 December 1989 . Attach. cc: G. Webster, B. I .A. This is Schedule "A ' to By-law 89- , passed this day of , 1989 A.D. CONCESSION STREET tio9s�r y��� z W T a W �2 AFT v w N �U W F m N �k LOWE STREET LOVERS LANE 0 D 0 U A ALEXANDER J<v� GQcy C3 O LIBERTY PLACE N 2��P2G QFFT y��� T9FFT CARLISLE AVENUE A, W J�" TRFFT o2 u' PJ�2 �2 CHURCH t` w in Free Metered KING Parking QUEEN BOWMANVILLE 0 100 200 m IOOm 50 Mayor Clerk Attachment #1 THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE BY-LAW NO. 78-118 being a by-law to amend By-law #76-30 being a by-law to provide for the reg- ulating of Parking, Standing and Stopping on Highways under the jurisdiction of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle and on private and municipal property. The Council of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle hereby ENACTS AS FOLLOWS: That Section IX of By-law No. 76-30 be amended by adding the following subsection (10) IX (10) Council, by resolution, may designate an area or areas for a certain period to be exempt from the payment of parking fees. BY-LAW READ A FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD TIME and finally passed this 18th day of December, 1978. �11,') UiCRER THE HAND OF THE C.F.J(YP,'O SEAL OF THE TOWN OF NEWC fi (O EE A TRUF_ ^ Y E BYLAW -1 l G. B. Rickard OF 1 t' 'JA,LL'E TaiE FO�(IU^l,F H 0'JN OF,NEWCAsrLE »_ Mayor 4F ............ :. ' . J. M. Mcllro ..'''�,,Jr 'rkiE CURpp,LgrlOfV 0P" Clerk __-_------ Attachment #2 practicable to the parking meter for such space; c) if a parking space has been designated by lines painted on the roadway, no person shall park any vehicle in such a manner that it is not wholly within the area designated as a parking space unless such vehicle is of such length as to render it impossible to park it in one parking space in which case the adjoining parking space shall, in addition, be used and the necessary deposit of coins shall be made in the parking meters provided for both parking spaces. 6) a) No person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in a parking meter space if : i) the parking meter has been covered by a parking meter cover; ii) the parking meter has been removed from its standard, b) Notwithstanding (a) above, only an authorized person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in a parking meter space where the meter has been covered or removed to indicate reserved parking) and stating "'NO PARKING ". 7) For the purposes of determining violations of the use of the parking meter or the parking space, the fact that the parking meter governing the parking space indicates that the vehicle is unlawfully parked is prima facie evidence that such vehicle is unlawfully parked. 8) No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or other substitute for a coin of the Dominion of Canada. 9) No person shall deface, conceal, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter erected under the authority of this By-law. 10) Nothing in subsections (2) , (3) , (4) and (S) of this section shall be deemed to permit a driver to stop or park at any location where, or at any time when stopping or parking is otherwise prohibited. BOWMANVILLE BUSINESS CENTRE UB BOWMANVILLE P.O. BOX 365 BUSINESS CENTRE BOWMANVILLE, ONT. L1C 3L1 1989 12 05 Mrs. Patti L. Barrie DEC 1989 Town Clerk Town of Newcastle 40 Temperance Street > -- Bowmanville, Ontario - - -r Dear Mrs . Barrie It was my understanding , based on a letter which I sent to Council some years ago , that a formal letter to request that there be free parking in the Down- town during Christmas Week was no longer necessary. However, because these arrangements do not exist in by-law form, it is deemed necessary that a letter be sent to Council to ensure that free parking in the Downtown is approved for 1989. As a result , please accept this letter as our official request for this to be done. If possible, we would be pleased if the bags could be placed on the meters late Friday afternoon on December 15 and not be removed until Wednesday, December 27, to allow for a full week and Boxing Day. Our thanks to you and the staff of the Town for your co-operation and support over the year, and our beast wishes for a happy holiday season and a good New Year! Yours very truly ° : r Al�r , Garth Gilpin Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager i k